* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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You MUST present your official ID (but only the one that's really easy to fake)

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Re: process failure and gaps

>in France, average Joe .. doesn't have any authority to ask for your ID card

Merde, but how can they check you are over 18 to buy Red Bull/Wine/Cough mixture when you are obviously 50+ ?

Think of the children,

Have you turned it off and on again? Russia's Nauka module just about makes it to the ISS

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If only there was US and Russian experience building craft inside pressure vessels with airtight compartments and pressure tight electrical/gas feed thoughts.

Perhaps they could find some WWII German experts

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>from somewhere north, such as scotland,

You only have to launch it toward the North, not from the North.

So long as it is clear of the M25 Hampstead, where it comes down isn't a problem

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You are building a space module - for space - and you put all the hookups on the outside ?

Isn't that like having a tank that you have to get out to fire the gun ?

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Re: UK in a unique position

Weren't they originally planning on using Prestwick?

What if there is a launch accident and a massive explosion so close to Glasgow?

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Re: UK in a unique position

Equatorial is no worse for other orbit inclination - it's just that you don't benefit for higher inclinations where ever you launch from. Main issue is not having powerful neighbours north and east of you.

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Re: UK in a unique position

The problem is that the Earth is round.

Launching polar orbits from the northern bits of the UK is OK (except for weather)

Launching eastwards is a problem since a failed launch would fall on some grumpy foreigners with rockets of their own.

Equatorial launches are right out due to the insistence that Britain remain in Europe

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UK in a unique position

If we are counting "space" in the Bezos/Branson sense I suspect that a teutonic eyebrow might be raised.

If they mean orbit - isn't Russia in Europe anymore ? (Yes Baikanur is in Asia but back in the good old days they launched from Archangel)

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Re: Nauka = Science!

> a new bathroom for cosmonauts.

So what's Russian for port-a-potty ?

London class-action sueball against Google is a lot like Epic's case except fandroids might win enough for a pint

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Re: "Advocates of these cases"

So instead each developer on the app store could go to their local solicitor and ask them to sue Google separately. That should be cheaper?

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Re: Why are they picking on Google?

Because Apple can turn round and day we aren't a monopoly because we're only 30% of the market.

There is presumably lots of precedent for a duopoly both demanding extortionate rents while saying there is competition

Happy birthday, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches

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> ears alert for matron .... because if she caught me I'd have something else to do that was much less enjoyable...

Mind = Boggled

On this most auspicious of days, we ask: How many sysadmins does it take to change a lightbulb?

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Re: "It has a cord attached so it's YOUR problem."

It's breathing so it's an HR problem.

Problem solved.....

Iranian state-backed hackers posed as flirty Scouser called Marcy to target workers in defence and aerospace

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Re: Can't believe people

No thanks - imagine filling in all the risk assessment forms

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Re: Retaliation

I think in the case of typical UK security services recruitment: gender is unitary

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Retaliation

UK Cyber Defence Force Commandos are currently infiltrating Iranian nuclear facilities by sending videos of the Rugby team in drag.

UK Cyber Defense Force is currently trying to expand it's recruitment to non-traditional candidates who may have gone to a school where there were girls !

Spam is Chipotle's secret ingredient: Marketing email hijacked to dish up malware

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Blame Mexico

>the geolocation of the IPs used by an attacker says nothing about where the attacker is truly domiciled

But the evidence that these were Mexican spicy chicken sandwich clearly shows who the enemy were

Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims

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Re: NSO caught with its pants down

>The UK also has that ability, but tends to be more than happy to put the boot into Israel.

They could face the ultimate sanction - a visit from Priti Patel

Beige pencil stockists on high alert as 'Colouring Book of Retro Computers' hits the crowdfunding circuit

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Re: Data centre

Just eject the cdrom to be sure

I'm feeling lucky: Google, Facebook say workers must be vaccinated before they return to offices

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Re: Acid test

I don't know, HCl sounds like a "chemical"

Have they tried Aqua Regia - or is that too monarchist / not republican enough ?

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Re: FREeDomZ

>Similar to smoking I would totally support a surcharge for health insurance for those refusing to take the vaccine, since it increases the future cost of their health care

Shouldn't that be a surcharge for people who don't smoke ?

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Re: Yawn

The Milk Marketing Board is behind all conspiracies.

I mean it's milk, you drink it, it tastes of milk - how much marketing does it need?

Obviously the MMB is just a front.

Just like the Scottish Midge Control Office

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Re: Yawn

The MMB

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Re: Liability

>Can someone explain the workings of rhte anti-vaxxer brain to me?

You know the scene in the Simpsons where inside Homer's head is just a monkey playing cymbals ?

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Re: I'm not sure

>Exactly how much does getting vaccinated reduce the risk to others,

Exactly - my passengers are sober, so why do I have to be aswell?

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Re: FREeDomZ

Well the ones who then don't take insulin because "the government wants them to" - yep

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Microsoft employees refusing to get vaccinated because Bill Gates will put microchips in them?

Don't they know that Microsoft HW is really good - it's only their software that lets them down.

I can see Googlers being concerned though - you get the Google microchip and then 6months later they drop support for it

DevOps still 'rarely done well at scale' concludes report after a decade of research

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We prefer the preceding millennium approach where applications are.made by marauding barbarians - move fast and break heads

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Re: I dunno, I'm going out on a limb here

To be fair, over the last 7-8 decades we haven't made anything work

Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work

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Re: Flexibility is key.

Yes but advertising a programmer role in central London and offering to pay $1.50/day global average salary may not be terribly productive

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Re: Flexibility is key.

If your salary is based only on where your office is located rather than your value - your employer is going to fail.

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Re: Going on-site has certainly been made redundant in IT

We use Microsoft Teams, so we just stationed all our staff inside Microsoft's data center in case they need to turn anything off or on again - latency is fantastic although they complain it is cold and noisy

Interestingly all our remote people ended up using teamviewer to work on their desktops at work - main problem was access to massive shared data sets and site licences for expensive modelling tools.

We seem to have reinvented dialup mainframe access

UK's National Cyber Security Centre needs its posh Westminster digs, says Cabinet Office, because of WannaCry

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Re: Precedent

But at least people were given the opportunity to work remotely - often very very remotely somewhere in Siberia

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Re: Yes, but...

>One thing that's been shown repeatedly when moving government departments out to the sticks.

Presumably why GCHQ has been so crap since moving to Cheltenham

SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube

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Re: I'm a bit sceptical

So at least the discovery of the disk was encrypted

UK regulator Ofcom seeks more powers to deal with mega constellations

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The nice thing about a global satellite network is that all latitudes get a chance to be a target - not just the tropics

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De-orbit isn't going to be a problem, the orbit of Starlink is so low that they will be lucky to last 5 years.

Of course if OFCOM is unhappy with this it can ban them operating in the UK. But their only potential customers are likely to be in remote bits of the highlands and islands - so no real political problems of banning rebellious Scots from having internet.

And sovereign Britain can always impose sanctions on the USA to prevent SpaceX being able to build them.

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The big question

Are British space spitfires ready to enforce OFCOMs ruling?

What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell

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Re: Not easy from the other side of the desk

What do you do with a workplace full of shuffling brain dead zombies muttering 'brains' - if you aren't management consultants?

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Re: Interviews...... nooooo the memories

Do this - it's often a small world.

HR pissed off the organiser of the local specialist X user group by ghosting them - your company name is now fertilizer among everyone in your city who is an expert in X.

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Re: Similar....

I had a 'brainstorming' interview with a now-defunct Cambridge technical consultancy where I came up with a new invention, and jokingly said "I should patent that"

A month later I interviewed with another team in the same company and they described the same problem - I told them the previous idea and they answered "Oh we had some consultant suggest that a few weeks ago but we couldn't make it work"

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Re: Missing type

>backup and recovery regime

We shoot everyone involved and deny that the project/department/organisation ever existed

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Re: That Meme

That's what I couldn't find - smbc's search is terrible

There is also one about dressing as Clarke Kent then saying "kryptonite"

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Re: ...weakness?

Regularly - apparently it doesn't feature in the new Marvel universe, because the PFYs employed as devs these days don't get it.

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No they had no idea what an error message meant but were all too embarrassed to ask and so were doing interviews until a candidate could explain it to them

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Re: Interview 2.0

> He answered he wanted to 'see how I thought'.

I would hire a team of consultants while I embarked on an extensive fact finding trip of other major estuaries in sunny regions noted for their excellent local cuisine

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Many many years ago I cancelled an interview at BAe.

They still called me on the morning of the interview and asked where I was, I explained that I thought the project they were working on was a fiasco that would obviously be cancelled and they would be shut down.

Many Many billions of £/$ later the project obviously is a fiasco but strangely hasn't been cancelled.

Somebody is destined for somewhere hot, and definitely not Coventry

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Re: Hot Stuff

Were these gay steel mills ?

Russia's Pirs ISS module scheduled to fall away, much like Moscow's interest in the space station

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Re: Maybe it's time

AKA the network switch that is supported by the rats-nest of cat5 cables all strung tight enough to reach the other switch - which can't be replaced because they are the only thing holding up the first switch.

Pentagon grounds own report that said China's DJI drones are safe

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Re: That's hilarious

We have always been at war with Eurasia Eastasia

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